While I serve few street dogs and stray kittens with packaged pet food products, I always have a doubt. These pet foods come with different taste. Do they really check the taste during manufacturing?? Or is it that they just mix the necessary flavours and name them so?
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Any examples you have in mind? Manufacturers mix the ingredient (and flavour sometimes) and hence call that out on the packet.
As all food manufacturers want their food to be eaten, they designed the food to be palatable. However to a great extent it depends on the price of the product as well.
In order to understand whether the product is appetizing or not, there are methods like acceptance measurement, enjoyment assessment etc.
In a one-bawl test one food is presented in the bawl to the animal and the quantity consumed by the animal indicates the acceptance level of the diet.
By this simple method you can understand the test of the food.
Personally, I think its always better to give home made food to the pets. no matter how renowned the brand is, its still packaged food with preservatives, right? besides, street dogs and stray kittens they are used to home made food, that’s what most people feed them, right? and please don’t misunderstand, I am not saying give them the scrapes from your plate, its just that the meat and veg bought from the local market, they are healthier than packaged products. boil them together, chicken, veggies, add some rice, that way you will know the ‘chicken flavor’ is actually from real chicken. besides, who the hell knows how those companies check their products, they say that they invest in quality control and all that, but do they really? They are for-profit companies, they cut cost whenever they can. (Tried a single pedigree bean once, it was awful, so one thing is sure, company workers aren’t trying those products and going ‘oh yeah, it tastes like chicken’)